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Literacy CAFE™ Menu (PHOTO)

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Thousands of you have asked to see a photo of The CAFE™ Menu in our Classroom. Here is a picture of Joan's CAFE™ Menu taken in early November of last year. The CAFE™ starts with the black heading titles at the top and the colored sheets below. Beginning the first day of school, we start introducing and teaching the strategies from the CAFE™ Menu. Once the strategies are taught and modeled for a few days, we have a child take a blank card from the cache of cards located in a clear pocket on the lower left side of the CAFE™ board, write up the strategy and post it in its correct place on the board. The CAFE™ Menu board is built together.

Once each child has been assessed, together we look at the CAFE™ Menu and set their goal: Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency or Expand Vocabulary. Each child then takes a small sticky note, writes their name on it and puts it below the CAFE™ Menu title that corresponds with their goal.



·  DESIGN - Conferring Locations (SLIDESHOW)
·  A Word Collector: A Tool to Increase Vocabulary (DOWNLOAD)
·  CAFE™ - Conferring Notes (VIDEO)
·  Daily 5™ - Launching Word Work - Part I of II (VIDEO)
·  Design - Reflecting On Classroom Environments (DOWNLOAD)


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